Directory for executable files

[Peter Flynn]

Apologies for top-posting.

Robert Heller is correct: the "normal" place for binaries that only you use 
was ~/bin

Stuff installed on a shared machine went in /usr/local/bin

Stuff installed by the OS went in /bin

Mutatis mutandis for libraries in <lib>, source code in <src>, etc.

This is clouded by the recent popularity of /opt and the use of flat zip 
archives.

I prefer to stick to the old format so that I don't have to remember 
multiple locations.

P

On 21 May 2019 01:06:17 Phil <phillor9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for reading this.
>
> In the past, programmes that needed to be built were downloaded into
> /usr/local/src and once "configure" and "make" were run an executable
> file would end up in /usr/local/bin. I don't often need to build a file
> with "make" and instead many of the programmes that I've downloaded,
> often to take advantage of the latest version, are downloaded in a zip
> file that contains an executable file.
>
> Once extracted the executable file, along with many other files, ends up
> in ~/Downloads/programme_name but of course that directory is not in
> $Path. "Application Launcher" takes care of that problem but I think
> there must be a more technically correct method.
>
> I do have ~/.local/bin because that's where "pip" puts the executable
> files. I could link ~/Downloads/programme_name to ~/.local/bin and that
> would allow me to launch an executable file from the console. $PATH
> includes ~/.local/bin.
>
> So, is using the application launch the best method to take care of
> programmes that are not in the path or is there a more technically
> correct and neater method?
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> Phil
>
>
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